Lalya is a Swedish-Senegalese HCI/Interaction Design researcher based in Göteborg, Sweden, who works in multidisciplinary projects at the convergence of art, technology, and design. Her prototyping-based research explores potentials of ubiquitous computing for everyday life aesthetic activities, and focuses in particular on locative media and mobile music technology. She also works in various art projects centred on urban public space and audio experimentations and organises cross-disciplinary sound-oriented workshops and small festivals.

She received a B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Geneva, a M.Sc.Eng. in Electroacoustics at KTH in Stockholm, worked several years at the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, and is currently a guest teacher at the Interaction Design programme at the IT-University in Göteborg, while finishing a Ph.D. thesis in Applied Information Technology at the University of Göteborg.

She is a member of the PLAN network for pervasive and locative arts, a permanent member of the steering committee for the international workshop series on Mobile Music Technology, and is actively involved in the NIME research community.

She has presented her work at various international conferences, festivals and journals and regularly gives talks, workshops and lectures at universities, institutions and events worldwide.

Contact: lalya-at-daonk-dot-org

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